Record Sounds from any source

While Audacity is a great audio editing utility with the ability to record sounds and edit them afterwards it still felt a little bit overweight for the mere task of recording sounds fast on a computer. I found a freeware utility that can record sounds from any incoming source in various formats including ogg vorbis, monkey audio, mp3 and acm.

The best feature of Harddisk Ogg is that it sits in the tray once configured and you can start the recording with a single mouse click and end it with another one. The quality of the recorded audio can be configured in detail including bitrate, mono or stereo recording and encoding quality.

Harddisk Ogg offers several normalization modes that amplify the input signal to a constant volume. You need to download and move the lame encoder into the folder of Harddisk Ogg to be able to record mp3 files directly.

I would like to explain why a tool like Harddisk Ogg might be useful now or in the near future. Several countries have already laws in place that make it illegal to copy music from Cd’s if the CD is copy protected. They still allow however to record the songs using audio devices and compare this to the recording of radio with audio tapes.

This is also great if you want to rip audio from music videos that you found on the internet or from youtube videos.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Friday February 9, 2007 -
Tags:audacity, audio, cd, copy, harddisk ogg, mp3, radio, record, songs, sound

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1. mars says:

   February 11, 2007 at 12:48 am

   Audacity does the same thing, albeit in two or possibly 3 clicks depending upon if you are or are not recording a sound generated by the pc.

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2. Gonza says:

   February 15, 2007 at 3:01 am

   I’ve been using Audio Record Wizard for a few years and like it a lot. Small footprint, records mono/stero 11.8 to 44.1, and can be set up for scheduling. Payware, but pretty cheap for that.

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